Sonia Alemagno, Interim VP for Research November 19, 2010 Key - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Biomedicine and Health Care Centers of Excellence Sonia Alemagno, Interim VP for Research November 19, 2010

Key Expertise

Bioscience

• Biophysics – David Allender, Elizabeth Mann
• Liquid Crystal Institute/Chemical Physics –

Chanjoong Kim, Qu-huo Wei

• Computer Science – Gwenn Volkert, Arvind

Bansal

• Biomedical image restoration and enhancement –

Lothar Reichel

• Chemistry –C.C. Tsai , Nichola Brasch , Hanbin

Mao, Soumitra Basu , Diane Stroup, Roger Gregory, John Portman, Bransidhar Datta, Arne Gericke

• Biological Sciences – Douglas Kline; Brent

Bruot; Christopher Woolverton, Gary Niehaus, Oleg Lavrentovich, Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan, John Stalvey, Robert Dorman, Jennifer Marcinkiewicz, James Blank, Rob Clements, Gail Fraizer, Eric Mintz

Public Health

• Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment /HIV-STD

Prevention– Sonia Alemagno

• Infectious Disease Epidemiology /Women’s &

Global Health/Epidemiologic Methods - Madhav P. Bhatta

• Biostatistical Methodologies/ Predictive Modeling –

Vinay K. Cheruvu

• Health Policy & Reform/Medicaid & the Uninsured –

Robert G. Frank

• Causal Inference in Public Health Research /Drug

Abuse Prevention & Treatment– Scott F. Grey

• Mental Health – David L. Hussey
• Dissemination & Translation Research /Adolescent

Health Policy – Willie H. Oglesby

• Prevention of Child Obesity – R. Scott Olds
• Familial Cancer Clusters/Breast & Colon Cancers/

Genetic Epidemiology – Lynette Phillips

• Indoor-Outdoor Air Quality/Community Health

Program Evanulation – Tomas Tamulis

• Biosafety/Immunology/BSL Training – Christopher
• J. Woolverton
• Cardiovascular Disease Prevention &

Rehabilitation/Obesity-Diabetes Prevention & Management – Melissa Zullo

Key Resources and Assets

• College of Public Health
• College of Nursing
• Departments of Psychology, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and others

Centers and Facilities

• Initiative for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) Doug Delahanty –

Summa Health System

• Biosafety Training Facility (a designated training facility of the NIH-NBBTP) –

Christopher Woolverton

• Center for Nursing Research and Simulation Laboratory
• Centennial Research Park (home of new company Pathogen Systems, Inc.)
• Analytical Instrumentation Facility, Department of Chemistry
• Flight Simulator – Ellen Glickman EHHS
• Laser Capture Microscope - Biological Science
• Imaging Core Facility
• Genomics Core Facility
• Proteomic Core Facility
• Computational Core Facility
• Cell Biology Teaching & Research Lab
• 3-D Classroom
• Liquid Crystal Institute

Key Technology

• Rapid Sensitive Bio-detection
• Fluorogenic Compounds Converted to Fluorophores for Medical Diagnostics
• Thermoelecrtic Liquid Crystal Flow for Use in Home Medical Diagnostics
• Sensitive and Rapid Detection of Viral Particles by Laser Tweezers

Pharmaceutical compounds

• Synthetic Vitamin B12 Derivatives for Anti-Dementia Applications
• Monodisperse Encapsulating Microbiogels
• Sperm-Specific AKAP Protein Genes and Uses
• Subversion of Bacterial Resistance by Low Solubility Antibiotic for Wound

Healing

• Vitamin K3 Compounds for Treatment of Cancer
• MRI Contrast Agents
• 3D Viewing of Large Image Data Sets

Medical Devices Imaging

Unique Processes

• The region’s only NIH Designated Biosafety (BSL-3)

Training Facility

• Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Initiatives across colleges and institutions
• Recently established College of Public Health to help meet

demonstrated state and national need

• The Initiative for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR)

in collaboration with Summa Health System facilitates NIH research in the areas of trauma, community health and chronic disease management

• Interdisciplinary institutes
• Extensive research in bioscience